danish

plural danishes · alternative Danish

1. countableuncountableA Danish pastry, or a light, sweet, yeast-raised roll usually filled with fruit or cheese.

   Get me a coffee and a cheese danish.

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   "We're still in a tight spot," Reynie said. "Mr. Curtain will be watching everyone very...and, oh, don't you find these danishes splendid, Sticky? They go down wonderfully well with cold milk, especially the raspberry ones."

   2007, Trenton Lee Stewart, The Mysterious Benedict Society, page 390

   Allen Gregory DeLongpre: Uh-oh, Principal Gottlieb. Looks like somebody forgot their danish, huh? Judith Gottlieb: Aw, crap. Allen Gregory: Three, two, one, and there's the money shot.

   2011 Allen Gregory, "1 Night in Gottlieb" (season 1, episode 2)

alternative danish

1. uncountableThe language of Danes and Denmark.

alternative danish

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to Denmark.

   The Danish midfielder received life-saving treatment during his country’s game against Finland in June 2021, eventually being resuscitated and taken to hospital.

   2023 January 3, Ben Church, “How Christian Eriksen returned to football after suffering cardiac arrest on pitch”, in CNN

alternative danish

1. collectiveusuallyDanes, natives of Denmark.

plural Danishes · alternative danish

1. USabbreviationcountableellipsisinformaluncountableEllipsis of Danish pastry.

   Hotel food is reasonably good, and rather British, except for breakfasts, when most hotels serve ensaimades, a puff pastry half way between a croissant and a Danish.

   1984 March 8, Peggy Speirs, “Doing the birdie on a long, long break”, in Evening Post, number 32,833, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 5, column 5

1. A male given name.

1. not comparablerareCharacteristic of someone named Dan.